Parallel Latin and German texts, in double columns

Signatures: pi² *² 2*² 3*1 )(² A-Y²

Hand-colored ill

Each plate accompanied by tissue guardsheet with letterpress description, not counted in pagination statement

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Dedicatory letter to Prince Carl Ludwig from Anna von Spalowsky dated "Wien den 26. August 1801" on p. [6] (1st group)

Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheque des Herrn Grafen von Schönborn Buchheim

Old, spattered grey paperboard binding; gilt-tooled spine with binder's title, which reads: Vorschmack e. Geschichte d. Schalthier Gehaeuse v. Spalowsky

Gilt-stamped shelfmark at foot of spine: I. 11. 294

Armorial paper label pasted on upper left of front cover, with shelfmark: 10.132

Bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased with support from the Collections Acquisition Fund, the Special Collections Endowment, and the Division of Mollusks, National Museum of Natural History

[14], IV, 88 p., [1], XIII leaves of plates : 42 cm. (fol.)

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